Shannen Doherty Divorce Finalized After Her Death | TMZ Live
Shannen Doherty was determined to finalize her divorce before she died, but she didn't quite make it ... nevertheless, a family law judge gave her a unique, posthumous assist.
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00:00Shannon Doherty was in the middle of a very bitter divorce in her final days
00:04Actually, the divorce has been going on for years for years and you know, of course that she passed away on Saturday
00:11But that day before she died there were documents she signed to settle this just finally settle the divorce
00:18And from what we are told from people in her world
00:22Everyone around knew that the end was coming
00:25Well, they knew it was they knew she wasn't gonna make it through the weekend, right?
00:28And so they were there was a mad dash because she wanted and there are financial reasons for this too
00:34But she wanted this divorce to be final before she died
00:38So Laura Wasser her lawyer who is you know represents every celebrity in a divorce
00:44On one side. Yeah
00:48She worked really hard to get a settlement in place which they did on Friday the day before she died
00:54So the settlement was in place and then they filed the documents hoping the judge would sign it on that day because they knew
01:02She was not gonna last the weekend judge didn't sign it and Harvey
01:06This is critical because as you said if you are still married when you when you actually pass away
01:10It has probate implications and that can be a very very messy process people want to have control over how their assets are divvied
01:17Up and by getting the settlement signed by the divorce judge after she died
01:20It was sort of an assist from the family law judge. Well, we didn't say that yet
01:24We should explain Derek that what happens is that once a person dies if they're in the middle of a divorce the family law
01:32judge
01:33Loses jurisdiction to do anything
01:35It goes over to the probate court and then all the probate court is gonna do is
01:41Figure out who gets what in terms of the will or you know, who's gonna have to pay estate taxes
01:47But you lose the ability to get divorced. So she died married. This could have gotten very very messy
01:54and very sticky but
01:56The judge seems like did her a solid here, right? You and I'm not seeing this. Yeah, I've not seen this in that
02:03Monday the two days after she died
02:06the judge signed the divorce documents the settlement and made it official and it was done posthumously
02:14Yeah, no, I'd never seen anything like this and it's what's interesting is the terms of the settlement which do reflect Shannon's last wishes are
02:21Are now laid out in the settlement agreement that is enforceable so it's good for her and what she wanted it
02:25She got the Malibu residence. She got a Salvador Dali painting and so forth
02:29So now that's baked in rather than having to settle all that in probate court, which can get really really messy
02:34The one thing that we will see although I don't think it's gonna happen
02:36Is that I wonder if he would actually go in and try to challenge this but since he well, I know
02:45The optics of that would be terrible would it be awful? Yeah, but would who knows what's gonna happen?
02:51but you know, he did sign off on the settlement and
02:55I just never seen anything like this
02:58but it's what Shannon wanted and
03:01in a way this really honors her because she wanted this done at the finish line now, there was another very
03:09Problematic relationship that Shannon had for years
03:12Before her death and that was with Alyssa Milano her former charmed co-star. It seems she
03:19Put that to rest as well before she passed and she was on she actually recorded a podcast with Holly Marie Combs
03:27Holly Marie Combs her former another charmed co-star has a podcast and
03:32Shannon went on there now they recorded this
03:35Last week, I believe it didn't actually come out until the 14th the day after Shannon's death on Sunday and
03:43This is what she had to say about Alyssa Milano
03:46I will say that Laurie Rahm who played Phoebe in the beginning was or for the presentation was really great
03:54she was a great actress and
03:57You know
03:59Laurie and Alyssa are very very very different people. So
04:03Laurie's performance was different than Alyssa's Laurie was a
04:07Lot like Holly and I in the sense of very grounded in drama, but when Alyssa came in, you know
04:14It provided like a levity that I think the show ended up needing and she came in and she did a great job
04:22And yeah, I just brought like a slightly different
04:27Flavor to the show
04:29Hi, my name is Nicole Commodore and I'm from Chicago, Illinois, I feel really bad for Shannon Doherty
04:34I feel awful for her the issue with her husband
04:38That was a long fall cancer battle and battle with him and he should be ashamed of himself
04:42I've honestly never seen that either and thanks to Alyssa Milano
04:45That's great that she really said nice things, even though they really didn't like each other on the set of charmed
04:50But sad case all around her rest in peace Shannon boy
04:54Health is the most important thing in the world
04:57All right, all those other things all the other things come and go health is what's important